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On Monday, February 13, 2012 10:39:29 AM ACro wrote: > Quoting Gerald <gcsgcatling@bigpond.com>: > > Andrew, > > I tried to do as you said, I also have windows in a 1TB drive. > > How ever after shrinking win7-64 and installing Linux on the now > > extended partition, > > windows would not boot!!!! > > On re-installing windows, everythig was set back to "normal" ie no > > Linux partition > > just windows. > > Gerald > > Gerald, > > I'm really sorry for this unsuccessful attempt: it seems that your initial > Windows setting is somewhat different from the one I had. You can try the > following steps, more respectful toward Windows ;-) > > 1) Create Windows recovery disks using the Recovery manager utility (you > should find it in your Programs). 2) Use the same utility to remove the > recovery partitions from your hard disk (don't delete them directly). If > only the first recovery partition is removed, that's fine (this still > allows you to create an extended partition in the free space). 3) Now, > shrink your Windows system partition: use the Windows tool first, which > you'll find in the Administration tool's disk manager, and see how much > space you can free. If it's enough for you, go ahead with Debian > installation. If not, try shrinking it further using Debian installer's > partitioning tool (in my case, this didn't corrupt the system). The > difference between Windows' and Debian's tool seems to be the following: > the first doesn't move the paging and other files, while the second does. > 4) Install Debian in the free space, creating *logical* partitions. If > your system won't use the whole available space, just create an unused > partition to fill the gap: this makes your extended partition to be as > large as the free space itself, allowing you to use it all in the future, > if needed. Otherwise, the extended partition will stop at the end of your > Debian system, making the remaining disk space unusable (if only the first > Windows recovery partition was removed), or allowing you to create only > one more - primary - partition, instead of more - logical - ones (if both > were removed). > > Hope this helps, please let me know. > > Kind regards, > Andrew > Hi Andrew, I took the easy way out and phoned Microsoft. Explained what I wanted to do and they gave me a link to both 32 bit and 64 bit Win7 I am, at his moment, downloading them. I shall then repartition the system and re-install win and then setup the Linux system (I hope). Thank you for replying. Gerald |